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SSRS to Power BI migration

Move your SSRS reports to Power BI

Keep the reports people use, in the format they expect. Rebuild the ones that should be interactive, and switch off the rest, at a fixed price agreed before work starts.

Why teams are moving off SSRS

SSRS has run reliable reports for years. The question now is less whether to move and more when, and how to avoid moving reports nobody reads.

No new versions of SSRS

From SQL Server 2025, Microsoft puts on-premises reporting under Power BI Report Server. SSRS 2022 is the last version and gets security updates until January 2033.

A server to look after

The report server, its database, certificates and Windows updates all need someone’s time, and that person is often the only one who knows how it works.

Reports nobody can change

Hundreds of reports built over the years, many no longer opened, with logic hidden in queries that people are afraid to touch.

Printing, not exploring

SSRS is good at fixed layouts. People who want to filter, drill down and compare end up exporting to Excel and starting again.

Hard to reach from outside

Reports that only work on the office network or over a VPN are hard to share with people working from home, on the road or at another site.

Two tools for one job

Many teams already use Power BI for dashboards and SSRS for invoices and statements, with two sets of licences, skills and numbers.

Three ways each report can go

Not every report should move the same way. We decide report by report with the people who use them.

01

Keep the layout

Fixed-format reports such as invoices, statements, packing lists and board packs move to Power BI as paginated reports. They look and print the same, and run in the browser or in Teams.

02

Rebuild as interactive reports

Reports people use to look for answers become Power BI reports with filters, drill-down and comparisons, built on one data model so every page agrees.

03

Retire

Reports nobody has opened in the last year are listed for you to confirm, then switched off rather than migrated.

Find out which of your reports are still used

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From report server to Power BI

  1. 01

    Inventory

    We read the report server catalogue and execution log to list every report, its data sources, its subscriptions and how often it is actually run.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Each report is marked keep, rebuild or retire with you, so you only pay to move what people use. You get a fixed price for the migration before work starts.

  3. 03

    Move

    Paginated reports are published to Power BI with Microsoft’s migration tools and checked page by page. Interactive reports are built on a shared data model.

  4. 04

    Switch over

    Subscriptions and email schedules are set up again, both versions run side by side until the numbers match, and then the old server is switched off.

Your data stays where it is

Reports can keep reading your on-premises SQL Server through the Power BI gateway, so the migration does not have to wait for a data warehouse project.

Checked against the old reports

Every migrated report is compared with its SSRS original on the same dates before anyone relies on it, and any difference is explained.

A reporting migration we have delivered

Finance reports moved from a legacy BI tool to Power BI, with the statement formats and adjustments the board relies on kept exactly as they were.

Financial services

Financial reporting migration for 3i

Profit and loss, balance sheet, KPI and reconciliation reporting moved from a legacy BI tool to Power BI on a proper data model, with two reporting bases and manual-adjustment capability preserved.

Read the case study

Questions about moving from SSRS

Is SSRS being discontinued?
Microsoft is not releasing new versions of SSRS. From SQL Server 2025, on-premises reporting is consolidated under Power BI Report Server. SSRS 2022 continues to get security updates until 11 January 2033, so there is time to plan, but no new features are coming.
Can our SSRS reports run in Power BI without being rebuilt?
Often, yes. SSRS reports (.rdl files) can be published to Power BI as paginated reports, and Microsoft provides tools to do it in bulk. Some data sources and features need changes first, which the inventory step finds before you commit.
Should we move to Power BI Report Server or to the Power BI service?
Power BI Report Server keeps everything on your own servers, but it comes with SQL Server Enterprise or Standard licensing and you still run the server. The Power BI service removes the server altogether. We will set out the cost and effort of both for your situation.
Which Power BI licence do we need?
Publishing paginated reports to a shared workspace needs Power BI Pro or Premium Per User. People who view shared reports usually need Pro too, unless you use a capacity licence, which can be cheaper when many people read reports. We will tell you the most economical option.
What happens to our subscriptions and scheduled emails?
Power BI has its own subscriptions for paginated reports, including scheduled emails with the report attached. We set these up again as part of the migration and check that each one arrives.
Do we have to move our databases to the cloud?
No. Reports can read on-premises SQL Server through the Power BI gateway. Moving data later is a separate decision.
How long does a migration take?
It depends far more on how many reports are still used than on how many exist. The inventory usually shows a large share that can be retired. You get a timeline and a fixed price once that is done.
How is it priced?
As a fixed-price project agreed before work starts. A short review comes first, so you know which reports are worth moving and what it will cost.

Send us the list of reports on your server.

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We will tell you which are still used, which can move as they are, and what the migration would cost.